Jobye-Kyle Karmaker
Principal Environment Artist
Jobye is a Principal Environment Artist with over 11 years experience working in the games industry. He initially got his start working on multiplayer Source Engine mods. From there, he went professional and worked at Ubisoft Toronto, then Monolith Productions, where he worked on an array of franchises in different genres, from linear singleplayer and multiplayer games to open world games: Rainbow Six: Patriots, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Far Cry 4, Far Cry Primal and Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. Jobye has now spent the last 4 years at Respawn Entertainment, where he shipped Star Wars – JEDI: Fallen Order , Apex Legends and is now working at Wildlight Entertainment as a Principal Environment Artist.
Throughout his career and through multiple projects, Jobye has built up a strong generalist background in all facets of environment art. Whether it is realistic, sci-fi or fantastic styles, foliage creation or hard-surface art, organic terrain or urban areas, chances are, he's worked in it.
Jobye has been coaching and providing one on one mentorships to help artists get started or further their careers for a number of years.
Environment Art Mentorship
This mentorship includes 5 hours of one-on one training, custom tailored to suit what the mentee wants to learn. We will build a custom development plan together in order to level-up your skills and help achieve your goals.
We can cover various aspects of Environment Art creation, from planning, scoping and reference gathering, modular mesh and texture workflows, foliage creation and optimization, through world building, scene polishing, and final render techniques.
The mentorship is designed to help deepen your eye for detail, break through plateaus, build confidence, increase technical aptitude, and provide a clear path of continued growth and success in your Environment Art career.
Learning Focus
Environment Art creation in Unreal Engine
Modular Art techniques
Vegetation creation and workflows
Environmental storytelling
ZBrush | Substance Suite | Speedtree | Maya | Marmoset
Final rendering and presentation
